Visions Illuminees - Mary Bevan - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

New arrangements of songs by Debussy, Ravel, Duparc, Chausson and others Tes Yeux Bleus (string orchestra arrangement by Chabrier - world premiere recording) Emmanuel Chabrier. Quatre Mélodies de Verlaine (new arrangement for piano quintet by Robin Holloway - world premiere recording) Claude Debussy, arr. Robin Holloway. Sérénades (arranged for piano quintet by Holmés - world premiere recording) Augusta Holmés (1847-1903).

“I recorded a disc, Voyages, with Joseph Middleton in 2017, for Signum, of songs set to poems by Baudelaire and Goethe, and I was keen to sing more French repertoire. This new disc, Visions illuminées, is ensemble-led, there’s no conductor, and it comprises new arrangements of songs by Debussy, Ravel, Duparc, Chausson and others. The music is very luscious and Romantic. The central focus is Britten’s Les Illuminations, alongside which there are orchestral arrangements of well-known songs such as Duparc’s ‘Chanson triste’ and Fauré’s ‘Clair de lune’, as well as new arrangements of Debussy and Ravel by Robin Holloway. There’s also a song by Chabrier that has never been heard before: the music was almost destroyed when the composer’s publishing house closed, and it’s been rescued by French scholars. This is the first recording.” - Mary Bevan

Tracklist

1. Faure: Clair De Lune Op. 46 No. 2
2. Britten: Les Illuminations Op. 18
3. Britten: Les Illuminations Op. 18
4. Britten: Les Illuminations Op. 18
5. Britten: Les Illuminations Op. 18
6. Britten: Les Illuminations Op. 18
7. Britten: Les Illuminations Op. 18
8. Britten: Les Illuminations Op. 18
9. Britten: Les Illuminations Op. 18
10. Britten: Les Illuminations Op. 18
11. Britten: Les Illuminations Op. 18
12. Ravel: Un Grand Sommeil Noir
13. Ravel: Un Grand Sommeil Noir
14. Ravel: Un Grand Sommeil Noir
15. Duparc: Chanson Triste
16. Chabrier: Tes Yeux Bleus
17. Chausson: Chanson Perpetuelle Op. 37
18. Debussy: Quatre Melodies De Verlaine
19. Debussy: Quatre Melodies De Verlaine
20. Debussy: Quatre Melodies De Verlaine
21. Debussy: Quatre Melodies De Verlaine
22. Holmes: Serenades
23. Holmes: Serenades
24. Holmes: Serenades
25. Holmes: Serenades
26. Holmes: Serenades

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland

📌 Works By Duparc/Debussy/Ravel/Chausson/A.O.